Easy operated cigar cutter

ABSTRACT

A cigar cutter mainly formed by a bottom sheet, a left blade, a right blade and an upper sheet. The four sheets are locked by a stud, while the left and right blade are movable with respective to the bottom sheet. The centers of these sheets have holes which are aligned. When a cigar passes through the hole, the two blades can move inwards to cut the cigar. A skilled design mechanism is formed in the four sheets so that as the two blades can be received within the two blades in a storage state. When it is desired to insert a cigar into the holes of the sheets, the two blades can be compressed inwards, and than the blades will resilient outwards by resilient forces of springs.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to cigar cutters, and in particular to acigar cutter which has two blades at two sides. The blades can moveinwards to a fixed position and to cut a cigar and moreover, the twoblades is movable outwards by an easy operation with slightly forceapplied thereto so that a cigar can be inserted into a hole in the cigarcutter for being cut.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Many cigar cutters exist in which one or two blades push through acigar. Such cutters can be appropriately called guillotine ordouble-guillotine cutters. These types of cutters suffer from thedeficiency that they can crush, squash, or otherwise deform the cigar asthey cut it. They can also tear the wrapper leaf or the endcap of thecigar as the blades are forced through the cigar.

In one prior art a cigar cutter, the cigar cuter comprises a frame witha slot and a hole therethrough, said frame having two sides which areparallel to each other, said frame being teardrop shaped, which slot hasa rectangular cross section, and which hole is perpendicular to the slotand is sized to accommodate a cigar tip; and two blades, each blade witha hinge end and a cutter end, said cutter end having two edges, thefirst of which said edges is sharp and the second of which is dull, saidblades hingeably coupled with each other and said frame and operablymounted so that said blades slide through the slot in said frame andeffectuate movement of first edges of said cutter ends of said bladesacross each other scissors-like, said blades crossing at the hole insaid frame.

Furthermore, in another type of cigar cutter exists in which a part ofthe cigar cutter can be pivotally displaced with respect to another partof the cigar cutter. In the course of this pivoting movement, thecutter's blades are subjected to a rotational movement corresponding tothe pivoting movement and concurrently to a translational movement, thusprogressively effecting the cutting of the cigar. In the alternative,the cigar cutter includes a lever that is turnable. By pivoting thelever, the cutter's blades are moved circularly in a hypocycloidal path.Both embodiments produce a peripheral cutting action at the same timethat the blades penetrate into the cigar.

In view of the art, a need exists for a cigar cutter in which theapplication of a squeezing force causes the cutter's blades to cut acigar in a manner intended to avoid substantial deformation and tearingof the cigar.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Accordingly, the primary object of the present invention is to provide acigar cutter, which has two blades at two sides. The blades can moveinwards to a fixed position and to cut a cigar and moreover, the twoblades is movable outwards by an easy operation with slightly forceapplied thereto so that a cigar can be inserted into a hole in the cigarcutter for being cut.

To achieve above objects, the present invention provides a cigar cuttermainly formed by a bottom sheet, a left blade, a right blade and anupper sheet. The four sheets are locked by a stud, while the left andright blade are movable with respective to the bottom sheet. The centersof these sheets have holes which are aligned. When a cigar passesthrough the hole, the two blades can move inwards to cut the cigar. Askilled design mechanism is formed in the four sheets so that as the twoblades can be received within the two blades in a storage state. When itis desired to insert a cigar into the holes of the sheets, the twoblades can be compressed inwards, and than the blades will resilientoutwards by resilient forces of springs.

The various objects and advantages of the present invention will be morereadily understood from the following detailed description when read inconjunction with the appended drawing.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is an exploded view of the cigar cutter in the first embodimentof the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the cigar cutter in the first embodimentof the present invention

FIG. 3 is an assembly view of the cigar cutter in the first embodimentof the present invention which is in an expanded state and without uppersheet.

FIG. 4 is an assembly view of the cigar cutter in the first embodimentof the present invention which is in a compressed state and withoutupper sheet.

FIG. 5 is an assembly view of the cigar cutter in the first embodimentof the present invention which is in an expanded state and with theupper sheet.

FIG. 6 is an assembly view of the cigar cutter in the first embodimentof the present invention which is in a compressed state and with theupper sheet.

FIG. 7 is an exploded view of the cigar cutter in the second embodimentof the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the cigar cutter in the secondembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is an assembly view of the cigar cutter in the second embodimentof the present invention which is in an expanded state and without uppersheet.

FIG. 10 is an assembly view of the cigar cutter in the second embodimentof the present invention which is in a compressed state and withoutupper sheet.

FIG. 11 is an assembly view of the cigar cutter in the second embodimentof the present invention which is in an expanded state and with theupper sheet.

FIG. 12 is an assembly view of the cigar cutter in the second embodimentof the present invention which is in a compressed state and with theupper sheet.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

In order that those skilled in the art can further understand thepresent invention, a description will be provided in the following indetails. However, these descriptions and the appended drawings are onlyused to cause those skilled in the art to understand the objects,features, and characteristics of the present inventions but not to beused to confine the scope and spirit of the present invention defined inthe appended claims.

Referring to FIGS. 1, the first embodiment of the present invention isillustrated, the cigar cutter in the first embodiment of the presentinvention has the following elements. In the following we assume aviewing line is at a front left side of FIG. 1 so as to define the leftside and right side of the cigar cutter in this first embodiment.

A bottom sheet 10 has a round hole 11 in a central portion thereof andhas two concave notches 12, 13 at two lower lateral sides thereof and alocking hole 14 at an upper center thereof.

An upper sheet 20 has a round hole 21 in a central portion thereof andhas two concave notches 22, 23 at two lower lateral sides and a lockinghole 24 at an upper center thereof. The round hole 21 of the upper sheet20 has a size approximately equal to that of the round hole 11 of thebottom 10.

A left blade 30 has a body 31, an operation bar 32 at a left lower sideof the body 31, a left locking ear 33 upward extending from an upper endof the body 31; and a concave half round cutting edge 34 at a rightlower side of the body 31; the left locking ear 33 has a locking hole39; and a cambered through hole 35 is formed below the locking hole 34of the left locking ear 33. The operation bar 32 has a recess 36 at alower inner side thereof; and nose 37 is protruded from the recess 36. Anotch 38 is formed at a right side of the body 31 and is above the halfround cutting edge 34 of the body 31 of the left blade 30. A diameter ofthe half round cutting edge 34 of the left blade 30 is smaller than thatof the round hole 11 of the bottom sheet 10 or than that of the roundhole 21 of the upper sheet 20.

A right blade 40 has a body 41, an operation bar 42 at right lower sideof the body 41, a right locking ear 43 upward extending from an upperend of the body 41; and a concave half round cutting edge 44 at a leftlower side of the body; the right locking ear has a locking hole 49; anda cambered through hole 45 is formed below the locking hole 49 of theright locking ear 43. A lower side of the right blade 40 is formed witha hook 46; a soft locking block 47 is attached to the hook for lockingto the nose 37 in the recess 36 of the operation bar 32 of the leftblade 30. A notch 48 is formed at a left side of the body 41 of theright blade 40 and is above the half round cutting edge 44 of the body41 of the right blade 40. The soft locking block 47 is formed by a firstblock 471 and a second block 472 assembled to the first block 471 whichis movably assembled to the first block 471. The first block 471 ishooked to the hook 46 of the right blade 40.

A restore spring 50 is installed between a wall of the notch 48 of theright blade 40 and a wall of the notch 38 of the left blade 30.

Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, in assembly, a stud 60 serves to lock thebottom sheet 10, the left blade 30, the right blade 40 and the uppersheet 20 sequentially by passing through the lock hole 14 of the bottomsheet 40, the locking hole 39 of the left locking ear 33 of the leftblade 30; the locking hole 49 of the right locking ear 43 of the rightblade 40; and the locking hole 24 of the upper sheet 20 sequentially;the round hole 11 of the bottom sheet 10 is aligned to the round hole 21of the upper sheet 20; the left blade 30 and right blade 40 arerotatable with respect to the stud 60. The restore spring 50 isinstalled between a wall of the notch 48 of the right blade 40 and awall of the notch 39 of the left blade 30. A perspective view of theassembled cigar cutter according to the first embodiment of the presentinvention is illustrated in FIG. 2.

The operation of the present invention will be described herein.Referring to FIGS. 3, 4, 5, and 6, as the left blade 30 and right blade40 move inwards to be within a space formed between the bottom sheet 10and the upper sheet 20. To an extreme position, the soft locking block47 will enter into the recess 36 of the left blade 30 to be buckled bythe nose 37 in the recess 36. Then the two blades 30, 40 are retained ina buckling state. As illustrated in FIG. 3, the cigar cutter of thepresent invention is formed as a rectangular shape. At this moment, thespring 50 is at a compressed state. The half round cutting edge 44 ofthe right blade 40 and the half round cutting edge 34 of the left blade30 will combined with as a hole with a size smaller than that of theround hole 21, 11 of the bottom sheet 10 or the upper sheet 20 so as tocut a cigar (not shown) passing through the round holes. When a furthercompressing force is applied to the left blade 30 and the right blade40, the two blades are compressed further, while the spring 50 willsuffer from a greater compressing force. When the compressed forceapplied to the two blades 30, 40 is released, the spring 50 will apply aresilient force to the two blades 30, 40 to make the two blades 30, 40move outwards. Since the soft locking block 47 is soft, the soft lockingblock 47 deforms and easily unbuckled from the nose 37 in the recess 36.Thereby, the cigar cutter is at a releasing state as illustrated inFIGS. 5 and 6. The operation is very easy and only a slight force isneeded for unbuckling operation due to the installation of the spring.

Referring to FIG. 7, the second embodiment of the present invention isillustrated. The cigar cutter in the second embodiment of the presentinvention includes the following elements with reference to FIG. 7. Inthe following we assume a viewing line is at a front left side of FIG. 7so as to define the left side and right side of the cigar cutter in thissecond embodiment.

A bottom sheet 100 has a round hole 101 in a central portion thereof andhas a convex upper side, a convex cambered lower side, and two concavecambered lateral sides, a locking hole 102 at an upper center thereofwith two screw holes 103, 104 at two sides of the locking hole 102, andtwo screw holes 105, 106 at a lower side thereof;

An upper sheet 200 has a round hole 201 in a central portion thereof andhas a convex upper side, a convex cambered lower side, and two concavecambered lateral sides, a locking hole 202 at an upper center thereofwith two screw holes 203, 204 at two sides of the locking hole, and twoscrew holes 205, 206 at a lower side thereof. The round hole 201 of theupper sheet 200 has a size approximately equal to that of the round hole101 of the bottom 100.

A cambered combining block 300 has two screw holes 301, 302 at two endsthereof.

A left blade 400 has a body 401, a folded side 402 at left side of thebody 401, a left locking ear 403 upward extending from the body; and aconcave half round cutting edge 404 at a right lower side of the body401; the left locking ear 403 has a locking hole 405. A notch 406 isformed at a right side of the body 401 of the left blade 400 and isabove the half round cutting edge 404 of the body 401 of the left blade400. A lower edge of the left blade 400 is formed with a recessed notch407.

A right blade 500 has a body 501, a folded side 502 at right side of thebody 501, a right locking ear 503 upward extending from the body 501;and a concave half round cutting edge 504 at a left lower side of thebody 501; the right locking ear 503 has a locking hole 505; a lower edgebelow the cutting edge 504 is formed as a hook 507. A notch 506 isformed at a left side of the body 501 and is above the half roundcutting edge 504 of the body 501 of the right blade 500. A diameter ofthe half round cutting edge 504 of the left blade 400 is smaller thanthat of the round hole 101 of the bottom sheet 100 or than that of theround hole 201 of the upper sheet 200.

A restore spring 600 is installed between a wall of the notch 506 of theright blade 500 and a wall of the notch 406 of the left blade 400.

A pad sheet 700 has a cambered lower side; a through hole 701; one leftscrew hole 703 and a right screw hole 704; a left trench 705 at a leftside of the through hole 701; and a lower side of the pad sheet 700 hastwo screw holes.

A left elastic sheet 801 has a screw hole; in assembly, the left elasticsheet 801 is received in the left trench 705 of the pad sheet 700.

A right elastic sheet 803 has an upper lock hole 804 and is installed inthe through hole 701 of the pad sheet 700.

An upper elastic sheet 802 has a lower protrusion 805 embedded into thelock hole 804 of the right elastic sheet 803.

A second spring 900 is installed between a left edge of the through hole701 of the pad sheet 700 and a right edge of the right elastic sheet 803so as to retain the right elastic sheet 803 to the pad sheet.

In assembly, referring to FIGS. 9 and 10, the pad sheet 700 is placedupon the bottom sheet 100; the left elastic sheet 801 is received in theleft trench 705 of the pad sheet 700; an upper protrusion 808 of theleft elastic sheet 800 protruded from an upper side of the pad sheet700; the right elastic sheet 803 is placed at a right side of thethrough hole 701 of the pad sheet 700; the lower protrusion 805 of theupper elastic sheet 802 is embedded into the lock hole 804 of the rightelastic sheet 803; the cambered combining block 300 is placed at upperside of the bottom sheet 100; a stud 810 serves to lock the bottom sheet100, the left blade 200, the right blade 300 and the upper sheet 200sequentially by passing through the lock hole 102 of the bottom sheet100, the locking hole 405 of the left locking ear 403 of the left blade400; the locking hole 503 of the right locking ear 505 of the rightblade 500; and the locking hole 202 of the upper sheet 200 sequentially;the round hole 101 of the bottom sheet 100 is aligned to the round hole201 of the upper sheet 200; the left blade 400 and right blade 500 arerotatable with respect to the stud. Two screws serves to lock the bottomsheet 100; the cambered combining block 300 and the upper sheet 200;each of the folded sides 402, 502 of the left blade 400 and the rightblade 500 is locked by two screws. The left elastic sheet 801 isreceived in the left trench 705 of the pad sheet 700. The right elasticsheet 803 is tightly installed in the through hole 701 of the pad sheet700. The upper elastic sheet 802 has the lower protrusion 805 embeddedin into the lock hole 804 of the right elastic sheet 803. The secondspring 900 is installed between a left edge of the through hole 701 ofthe pad sheet 700 and a right edge of the right elastic sheet 803 so asto retain the right elastic sheet 803 to the pad sheet. A perspectiveview of the assembled cigar cutter according to the first embodiment ofthe present invention is illustrated in FIG. 8.

Operation of this embodiment will be described herein. Referring toFIGS. 9, 10, 11 and 12, as the left blade 300 and right blade 400 moveinwards to be within a space formed between the bottom sheet 10 and theupper sheet 20; to an extreme position, the protrusion of the leftelastic sheet 801 will buckle the recessed notch 407 at the lower edgeof the left blade 400 so as to retain the left elastic sheet 801 inposition. The left elastic sheet 400 will retain the right elastic sheet500 in position. As illustrated in FIG. 4, the cigar cutter of thepresent invention is formed as an oblong shape. At this moment, therestore spring 600 and the second spring 900 are at a compressed state.The half round cutting edge 404 of the right blade 400 and the halfround cutting edge 504 of the left blade 500 will overlap to seal theround hole 201 101 of the bottom sheet 100 or the upper sheet 200 so asto cut a cigar (not shown) passing through the round holes. When afurther compressing force is applied to the left blade 300 and the rightblade 500, the two blades are compressed further, while the spring 500will suffer from a greater compressing force. When the compressed forceapplied to the two blades 300, 500 is released, the restore spring 600will apply a resilient force to the two blades 300, 500 to make the twoblades 300, 500 move outwards. Since left elastic sheet 801 is made ofsoft material, the protrusion of the left elastic sheet 801 willunbuckle from the recessed notch 407 at the lower edge of the left blade400. Thereby, the cigar cutter is at a releasing state as illustrated inFIG. 11 and FIG. 12. The operation is very easy and only a slight forceis needed for unbuckling operation due to the installation of thespring.

The present invention is thus described, it will be obvious that thesame may be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regardedas a departure from the spirit and scope of the present invention, andall such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art areintended to be included within the scope of the following claims.

1. A cigar cutter, comprising: a bottom sheet having a round hole (11)in a central portion thereof and two concave notches (12), (13) at twolower lateral sides thereof and a locking hole (14) at an upper centerthereof; an upper sheet (20) having a round hole (21) in a centralportion thereof and having two concave notches (22, 23) at two lowerlateral sides and a locking hole (24) at an upper center thereof; theround hole (21) of the upper sheet (20) having a size approximatelyequal to that of the round hole (11) of the bottom (10); a left blade(30) having a body (31), an operation bar (32) at a left lower side ofthe body (31), a left locking ear (33) upward extending from an upperend of the body (31); and a concave half round cutting edge (34) at aright lower side of the body (31); the left locking ear (33) having alocking hole (39); and a cambered through hole (35) being formed belowthe locking hole (34) of the left locking ear (33); the operation bar(32) having a recess (36) at a lower inner side thereof; and nose (37)being protruded from the recess (36); a notch (38) being formed at aright side of the body (31) and being above the half round cutting edge(34) of the body (31) of the left blade (30); a diameter of the halfround cutting edge (34) of the left blade (30) being smaller than thatof the round hole (11) of the bottom sheet (10) and smaller than that ofthe round hole (21) of the upper sheet (20); a right blade (40) having abody (41), an operation bar (42) at right lower side of the body (41), aright locking ear (43) upward extending from an upper end of the body(41); and a concave half round cutting edge (44) at a left lower side ofthe body; the right locking ear having a locking hole (49); and acambered through hole (45) formed below the locking hole (49) of theright locking ear (43); a lower side of the right blade (40) beingformed with a hook (46); a soft locking block (47) formed attached tothe hook for locking to the nose (37) in the recess (36) of theoperation bar (32) of the left blade (30); a notch (48) being formed ata left side of the body (41) of the right blade (40) and being above thehalf round cutting edge (44) of the body (41) of the right blade (40);the soft locking block (47) being formed by a first block (471) and asecond block (472) movably assembled to the first block (471); the firstblock (471) being hooked to the hook (46) of the right blade (40); arestore spring (50) being installed between a wall of the notch of theright blade and a wall of the notch of the left blade; wherein inassembly, a stud (60) serves to lock the bottom sheet (10), the leftblade 30), the right blade (40) and the upper sheet (20) sequentially bypassing through the lock hole (14) of the bottom sheet (40), the lockinghole (39) of the left locking ear (33) of the left blade (30); thelocking hole (49) of the right locking ear (43) of the right blade (40);and the locking hole (24) of the upper sheet (20) sequentially; theround hole (11) of the bottom sheet (10) is aligned to the round hole(21) of the upper sheet (20); the left blade (30) and right blade (40)are rotatable with respect to the stud (60); the restore spring (50) isinstalled between a wall of the notch (48) of the right blade (40) and awall of the notch (39) of the left blade (30).
 2. A cigar cutter,comprising: a bottom sheet (100) having a round hole (101) in a centralportion thereof and having two concave cambered sides, a locking hole(102) at an upper center thereof; an upper sheet (200) having a roundhole (201) in a central portion thereof and having two concave camberedsides, a locking hole (202) at an upper center thereof; the round hole(201) of the upper sheet (200) having a size approximately equal to thatof the round hole (101) of the bottom (100); a cambered combining block(300); a left blade (400) having a body (401), a folded side (402) atleft side of the body (401), a left locking ear (403) upward extendingfrom the body; and a concave half round cutting edge (404) at a rightlower side of the body (401); the left locking ear (403) having alocking hole (405); a notch (406) being formed at a right side of thebody (401) of the left blade (400) and being above the half roundcutting edge (404) of the body (401) of the left blade (400); a loweredge of the left blade (400) being formed with a recessed notch (407); aright blade (500) having a body (501), a folded side (502) at right sideof the body (501), a right locking ear (503) upward extending from thebody (501); and a concave half round cutting edge (504) at a left lowerside of the body (501); the right locking ear (503) having a lockinghole (505); a lower edge below the cutting edge (504) being formed as ahook (507); a notch (506) being formed at a left side of the body (501)and being above the half round cutting edge (504) of the body (501) ofthe right blade (500); a diameter of the half round cutting edge (504)of the left blade (400) being smaller than that of the round hole (101)of the bottom sheet (100) or than that of the round hole (201) of theupper sheet (200); a restore spring (600) being installed between a wallof the notch (506) of the right blade (500) and a wall of the notch(406) of the left blade (400); a pad sheet (700) having a cambered lowerside; a through hole (701); a left trench (705) at a left side of thethrough hole (701); a left elastic sheet (801); in assembly, the leftelastic sheet (801) being received in the left trench (705) of the padsheet (700). a right elastic sheet (803) having an upper lock hole (804)and being installed in the through hole (701) of the pad sheet (700); anupper elastic sheet (802) having a lower protrusion (805) embedded ininto the lock hole (804) of the right elastic sheet (803); a secondspring (900) installed between a left edge of the through hole (701) ofthe pad sheet (700) and a right edge of the right elastic sheet (803) soas to retain the right elastic sheet (803) to the pad sheet; wherein inassembly state, the pad sheet (700) is placed upon the bottom sheet(100); the left elastic sheet (801) is received in the left trench (705)of the pad sheet (700); an upper protrusion (808) of the left elasticsheet (800) protruded from an upper side of the pad sheet (700); theright elastic sheet (803) is placed at a right side of the through hole(701) of the pad sheet (700); the lower protrusion (805) of the upperelastic sheet (802) is embedded into the lock hole (804) of the rightelastic sheet (803); the cambered combining block (300) is placed atupper side of the bottom sheet (100); a stud (810) serves to lock thebottom sheet (100), the left blade (200), the right blade (300) and theupper sheet (200) sequentially; the round hole (101) of the bottom sheet(100) is aligned to the round hole (201) of the upper sheet (200); theleft blade (400) and right blade (500) are rotatable with respect to thestud; The left elastic sheet (801) is received in the left trench (705)of the pad sheet (700); the right elastic sheet (803) is tightly istightly installed in the through hole (701) of the pad sheet (700); theupper elastic sheet (802) has the lower protrusion (805) embedded ininto the lock hole (804) of the right elastic sheet (803); the secondspring (900) is installed between a left edge of the through hole (701)of the pad sheet (700) and a right edge of the right elastic sheet (803)so as to retain the right elastic sheet (803) to the pad sheet.
 3. Thecigar cutter as claimed in claim 2, wherein a stud (810) serves to lockthe bottom sheet (100), the left blade (200), the right blade (300) andthe upper sheet (200) sequentially by passing through the lock hole(102) of the bottom sheet (100), the locking hole (405) of the leftlocking ear (403) of the left blade (400); the locking hole (503) of theright locking ear (505) of the right blade (500); and the locking hole(202) of the upper sheet (200) sequentially;
 4. The cigar cutter asclaimed in claim 2, wherein two screws serves to lock the bottom sheet(100); the cambered combining block (300) and the upper sheet (200);each of the folded sides (402), (502) of the left blade (400) and theright blade (500) is locked by two screws.